Kwabena Kwabena fights profane lyrics…calls on MUSIGA to censor

Kwabena Kwabena

Ghanaian Highlife artiste, Kwabena kwabena is calling on the President of the Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) to find means of monitoring and censoring songs before they are released unto the market.

According to him the establishment of a censor body will help curb the rate at which profane lyrics are aired even in public.

‘Trust me there are certain songs played on radio I think should not just be there’ he told Xfm 95.1 in an interview”, adding, “I listened to my four year old daughter sing a certain song which I wouldn’t want to sing on radio. And I didn’t play it in my house but I know she heard it on radio’.

It is on this premise the award winning highlife musician is calling for the censorship board for the music industry.

“There is no censor board in this country for music. With all due respect to any musician; I believe that there are certain songs you cannot play publicly. The union should be looking at this. We need to maintain a certain level of decency in this industry. This is a big business and we need to safeguard it”, he said.

Kwabena Kwabena also identified the inability of MUSIGA to publicise its activities as some of the failings of the new executives headed by Obour, stressing, “I don’t see a lot on MUSIGA and what it is doing. I think there is a little problem as far as PR is concerned”

He called on the President to “begin to look at the percentage of local and foreign content as far as our music is concerned”.


Story by Dennis